ISic001912: Funerary epitaph for [--]lia
- ID
- ISic001912
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Gradante from autopsy ;
- 1: Ferrua: [Ἐ]λία (i.e. Αἰλία)
- 4-5: Ferrua: [ἐκοιμήθη] | π(ρὸ) η
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of white marble plaque, cut down on all sides for re-use, and broken on the upper left subsequent to the re-use for this inscription. Opisthographic plaque, with earlier text on the reverse,
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 16 cm, width: 22 cm, depth: 2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text over 5 lines, reducing drastically in size towards the lower edge.
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, legible
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 25-33mm
- Line 2: 27-30mm
- Line 3: 15-25mm
- Line 4: 7-20mm
- Line 5: 4-15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 11-15mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 5-8mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 5-10mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 1mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Catacomb of S. Giovanni
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 159
- Autopsy
- IG 2022-02-09
- Map
Date
C4 AD - C5 AD (AD 313 – AD 500)- Evidence
- archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The inscription uses a cut down rectangular piece of a large high imperial monumental Latin text. Brown marks on both sides of the stone derive from a wooden frame used previously to display the plaque.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: -
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Antonio Ferrua, «Florilegio d’iscrizioni paleocristiane di Sicilia», Rendiconti della pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia 22 (1947 1946): 227–39, at no.34 (and p.235 fig.2)
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 2, p. 21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/7/2025